Animal models, zoonotic reservoirs, and cross-species transmission of emerging human-infecting coronaviruses

Y Kane, G Wong, GF Gao - Annual review of animal biosciences, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Over the past three decades, coronavirus (CoV) diseases have impacted humans more than
any other emerging infectious disease. The recent emergence of severe acute respiratory …

Behavioural ecology and infectious disease: implications for conservation of biodiversity

J Herrera, CL Nunn - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Behaviour underpins interactions among conspecifics and between species, with
consequences for the transmission of disease-causing parasites. Because many parasites …

Effects of culling vampire bats on the spatial spread and spillover of rabies virus

M Viana, JA Benavides, A Broos, D Ibañez Loayza… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Controlling pathogen circulation in wildlife reservoirs is notoriously challenging. In Latin
America, vampire bats have been culled for decades in hopes of mitigating lethal rabies …

[HTML][HTML] Stony coral tissue loss disease: a review of emergence, impacts, etiology, diagnostics, and intervention

E Papke, A Carreiro, C Dennison… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is destructive and poses a significant threat to
Caribbean coral reef ecosystems. Characterized by the acute loss of coral tissue, SCTLD …

Wildlife culling as a biophobic response to zoonotic disease risk: why we need a one health approach to risk communication

CJ Anderson, JK Reaser - Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Zoonoses–infectious diseases that are transmitted between people and other animals–are
one of the foremost public health threats. Public health messaging is a critical tool for …

Mathematical modeling at the livestock-wildlife interface: scoping review of drivers of disease transmission between species

BH Hayes, T Vergne, M Andraud… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Modeling of infectious diseases at the livestock-wildlife interface is a unique subset of
mathematical modeling with many innate challenges. To ascertain the characteristics of the …

Does hunting affect the behavior of wild pigs?

O Keuling, G Massei - Human–Wildlife Interactions, 2021 - digitalcommons.usu.edu
Wild boar and feral swine (Sus scrofa) numbers are growing worldwide. In parallel, their
severe ecological and economic impacts are also increasing and include vehicle collisions …

Natural born cullers? How hunters police the more-than-human right to the city

E von Essen, D Redmalm - Environment and Planning E …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Urban areas are a messy more-than-human interface for humans and synanthropic wildlife.
Norms for what constitutes a 'problem'animal to be culled, a displaced animal to be rescued …

A systemic approach to assess the potential and risks of wildlife culling for infectious disease control

E Miguel, V Grosbois, A Caron, D Pople… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
The maintenance of infectious diseases requires a sufficient number of susceptible hosts.
Host culling is a potential control strategy for animal diseases. However, the reduction in …

Host–pathogen interactions under pressure: A review and meta‐analysis of stress‐mediated effects on disease dynamics

A Vicente‐Santos, B Willink, K Nowak… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities have increased the intensity and frequency of natural stressors and created
novel stressors, altering host–pathogen interactions and changing the risk of emerging …